For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

荆棘蒺藜必长在我百姓的地上，又长在欢乐的城中和一切快乐的房屋上。

刺草和荆棘要长在我百姓的田地上，长在欢乐城中一切快乐家园上。

刺草和荆棘要长在我百姓的田地上，长在欢乐城中一切快乐家园上。

为我百姓那长满荆棘和蒺藜的土地，为那曾经充满欢乐的城邑和家庭哀哭吧！

也为那些在我子民的土地上长起来的荆棘和蒺藜而哀哭，为那欢乐的城和所有快乐的房屋，也是这样。

为着我民那长荆棘和蒺藜之地，为着欢腾之城的一切欢乐之家，你们捶胸哀哭吧！

荊棘蒺藜必長在我百姓的地上，又長在歡樂的城中和一切快樂的房屋上。

刺草和荊棘要長在我百姓的田地上，長在歡樂城中一切快樂家園上。

刺草和荊棘要長在我百姓的田地上，長在歡樂城中一切快樂家園上。

為我百姓那長滿荊棘和蒺藜的土地，為那曾經充滿歡樂的城邑和家庭哀哭吧！

也為那些在我子民的土地上長起來的荊棘和蒺藜而哀哭，為那歡樂的城和所有快樂的房屋，也是這樣。

為我人民的土地、那長着荊棘和蒺藜的！為了歡躍的都市一切娛樂的院落哀哭哦！

為著我民那長荊棘和蒺藜之地，為著歡騰之城的一切歡樂之家，你們捶胸哀哭吧！

我民之田、歡娛之邑、喜樂之第、徧生荊棘蒺藜、

我民之田、斯邑之室、昔則欣然喜悅、今則荊棘叢生、

荊棘蒺藜、必叢生於我民之土地、生於喜樂城中一切可悅之宅第、

and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.

My people’s land is overgrown with thorns and bushes. Mourn for all the houses that were once filled with joy. Cry over this city that used to be full of wild parties.

for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.

for the ground of my people growing thorns and briers, indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up; Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

for the ground of my people growing thorns and briers, indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns[ and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy[ in] the joyous city:

Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once- happy houses in the city filled with revelry.

Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

The whole city is in a terrible uproar. What do I see in this reveling city? Bodies are lying everywhere, killed not in battle but by famine and disease.

Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis will bury you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver; thistles will invade your ruined homes.

Thorns will overrun its palaces; nettles and thistles will grow in its forts. The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and a home for owls.

In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.

She glorified herself and lived in luxury, so match it now with torment and sorrow. She boasted in her heart,‘ I am queen on my throne. I am no helpless widow, and I have no reason to mourn.’Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day— death and mourning and famine. She will be completely consumed by fire, for the Lord God who judges her is mighty.”

Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, including the royal palace and the houses of the people, and they tore down the walls of the city.

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

At that time the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, called you to weep and mourn. He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse.But instead, you dance and play; you slaughter cattle and kill sheep. You feast on meat and drink wine. You say,“ Let’s feast and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Then I said,“ Lord, how long will this go on?” And he replied,“ Until their towns are empty, their houses are deserted, and the whole country is a wasteland;

And the pagan shrines of Aven, the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble. Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars. They will beg the mountains,“ Bury us!” and plead with the hills,“ Fall on us!”